It is understood that Huawei and Apple reached a series of patent licensing agreements last year, covering wireless communication technologies such as GSM, UMTS and LTE. The number of patents of both parties was also made public for the first time. Huawei granted 769 patents to Apple, and Apple granted 98 patents to Huawei. In the communication industry, when two companies sign patent licenses, the one with more patent licenses will charge the one with less patent fees.
It is understood that Huawei invested $9.2 billion in research and development of new technologies and products in 20 15 years, accounting for 15% of sales, which has exceeded Apple's R&D investment of $8.5 billion, accounting for 3.5% of sales. At present, Huawei applied for 52,550 patents in China, and Huawei consumer BG applied for 9,000 patents last year, including 6,200 in China and 2,800 overseas.
According to the information released by the Intellectual Property Office, the number of patents granted by Huawei is obviously more than that granted by Apple, so Apple has to pay patent fees to Huawei. As for the patent fee paid by Apple to Huawei, the latter did not disclose it, but the industry estimated that it was at least several hundred million dollars.
People's Daily Online-Apple began to pay patent fees to Huawei? Every year or as high as hundreds of millions of dollars (Figure)
People's Daily Online-Apple paid hundreds of millions of dollars in patent fees to Huawei, and China's communication enterprises achieved technical counterattack.